Dr. Ben Carson vigorously defended pro life values in a recent exchange with Whoopi Goldberg on “The View,” with the 2016 GOP Presidential hopeful not afraid to teach the controversial host a thing or two.

The 2016 GOP Presidential candidate recently announced raising a record $20 million for his campaign, all while moving to within 1% of Donald Trump in some polls.

“Republican presidential contender Dr. Ben Carson appeared on ABC’s The View on Tuesday, where he defended his pro-life stance on abortion under questioning from co-host Whoopi Goldberg.

“You sort of feel that there’s not a war on women, but there may be a war on what’s inside of women,” Goldberg told Carson. “Is that accurate?”

“We are killing babies all over the place,” Carson responded. “I’ve spent my entire career trying to preserve life and give people quality of life, even operating on babies in the womb, operating all night long sometimes on premature babies. And I get to meet those people when they’re adults, and productive adults. There is no way you’re going to convince me that they’re not important, that they’re just a mass of cells.”

“I wanna ask you this,” Goldberg countered. “Have you met with the women who have to make these horrendous decisions when they have to make them, of whether or not they can bring a child into the world? We talk about bringing children into the world all the time, but periodically, some women feel, ‘I just can’t.’ Are you empathetic to them?”

“I’m very empathetic,” Carson replied. “What I have said is that this is a job for us in the private sector. What we need to do is make sure that we provide adequate day-care centers for these mothers so that they can get their GED…”